... is a ChatGPT experiment that I will serialize here. I've been wasting hours with the thing, learning how to write stories in partnership with it. I've got an idea for a comedy adventure story for boys along the lines of the old Hardy Boys or Bobsey Twins books from long ago. In my case, the young characters will be more, err, sophisticated, shall we say? Yes, more sophisticated, but still innocent.
I've discovered that ChatGPT will translate dialog into whatever dialect you'd like. For example,
Prompt
write this dialog in a broad, cockney accent
"Why are we doing this, fellows? I don't think this is a good idea. Instead, we should go around the back and break into the professor's study."
ChatGPT Response
"Woi are we doin' this, fellas? I don't fink this is a good idear. Instead, we should go round the back and break into the professor's study."
Further Prompt:
write that in a redneck dialect
ChatGPT Response
"Why we doin' this, y'all? I don't reckon it's a good idear. We oughta go 'round back and bust into that there professor's study."
This could be hilarious or it could be awful. We'll see.
If you can ever use the idea, here is what I recall of a hilarious "directed dream" --
ReplyDeleteIt's a spoof of the show, "Castle". This is a NYC in which *any* crime is legal ... so long as you have a license to commit it ... and which "public servants" have scheduled strike days.
As the "episode" begins, apparently on a Monday afternoon or Tuesday, the crew is examining the scene of an apparent murder. As they are discussing what is known, we learn that the discovery of the dead body had been called in the previous Friday ("public servant" strikes, recall). There was some typical banter, none of which I recall, but it was hilarious in the dream. Then the "Kate" character wants to contact some other office (the coroner, I suppose) to have an official from that office examine the body, but the "Xavier" character informs her that that office will be striking that day ... and of course, out of solidarity, so must they.
Anyway, it turns out that the death was "the perfect crime" -- the guy had committed suicide (for which he had no license) and he had cleverly done it in such a way as to frame someone else (who had no license to kill him). Though, I suppose a twist ending could be revealed to the reader/audience, but kept from the characters, that it was *actually* an unlicensed murder disguised as an unlicensed suicide framed as an unlicensed murder.